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Computer Science graduate develops app to ensure privacy for the deaf

Privacy too isn’t guaranteed, in the use of sign language, where anyone who understands sign language can decode the context being relayed.

Allan Okoth, a computer science graduate from Karatina University has developed Beacon application to address the issues of privacy, freedom of expression and social exclusion among individuals with hearing impairment.

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